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Monthly and Quarterly Meeting Leadership Gatherings
Three times each year, Friends in local and quarterly meeting leadership (clerks, assistant clerks, treasurers, committee clerks) gather online with the presiding clerk and General Secretary. The...
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Making Spaces for Children In Worship
A rising interest in intergenerational worship in the yearly meeting has also led to meetings creating spaces for children in the places where they worship. This is more than putting a “children’s...
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Meeting for Learning with Attention to Quakerism
Serving as a member of the yearly meeting staff includes ongoing learning as individuals and as a staff community. Staff meetings during any calendar year include collaboration and planning across...
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Event Recap: Check-in on Creating a Playbook for Climate Action
On Wednesday, May 29, Friends gathered to check in on their progress on working with Creating a Playbook for Climate Action. Participants ranged from those currently using the resource to those looking...
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Norristown Meeting’s “Memorial to the Lost” Addresses Gun Violence
Norristown Quaker Meeting will hold a public witness to the lives lost to gun violence in Montgomery County this June. Over 40, 000 die from gun violence every year in the United States. The first...
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Land Acknowledgement Statement
A consistent practice during opening worship of Yearly Meeting Sessions is an acknowledgment that the places where we gather are the ancestral land of native people who were here for millennia before...
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Fox Forward: 400 Years and Beyond
July 2024 marks the 400th birthday of Quakerism co-founder George Fox. For more than a year, Friends around the world have been pondering and planning how to celebrate the life and legacy of this 17th...
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Listen and Lobby
In March of this year, the Administrative Council laid down the policy it had approved on lobbying and advocacy in favor of a new process of listening and collaboratively building an approach to the...
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Staff Transitions: Chief Financial Officer & Director of Program and...
This month, we are posting job openings for two important positions that have been held by Friends who have been involved with PYM for decades. We are posting the Chief Financial Officer position,...
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Salem Quarter IAC Minute of Unity Refuting the 1626 Schagen Letter
We stand in support of Lenape leaders refuting Pieter Schaghen’s 1626 letter to the Dutch West India Company, which mentions a supposed purchase of the Island of Manhattan, approximately 22,000 acres,...
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Annual Sessions Recap: Mott Memo for July 6-7
Saturday-Sunday, July 6-7, we completed the 344th Annual Sessions of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. Annual Sessions events began in June, and this year we’re combining days and sharing one Mott Memo...
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“Fox Forward” Recording of June 29 Roundtable
At the 400th Birthday Celebration for George Fox at Arch Street Meetinghouse on June 29, the “Fox Forward” roundtable discussion featured leaders in the Quaker community today speaking to how we can...
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344th Annual Sessions Epistle
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting held its 344th annual sessions last weekend, July 6-7. Friends gathered both on Zoom and at Haverford College for worship, business, and fellowship. Please read this story...
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Middle East Collaborative at PYM Annual Sessions
At the invitation of General Secretary, Christie Duncan-Tesmer, and Presiding Clerk, Melissa Rycroft, PYM’s Middle East Collaborative (MEC) presented during the Saturday afternoon July 6, 2024...
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Supporting Children and Teens After Violent News
How do we talk to children and adolescents about gun violence and senseless tragedy? Parents and caregivers are helping their children process their feelings alongside their own, and signs of anxiety...
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Quaker Education Granting Group awards Post-Secondary Education Grants!
At its June meeting, PYM’s Quaker Education Granting Group met for discernment and approved a total of $49,050 to eighteen students from the yearly meeting to support their post-secondary education....
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FWCC World Plenary Events: August 5-12
Living the spirit of Ubuntu: Responding with hope to God’s call to cherish creation – and one another In the works for many years, the next Friends World Committee for Consultation (FWCC) World Plenary...
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General Secretary Search Committee
After more than ten years of service as General Secretary and twenty years with PYM, Christie Duncan-Tessmer will be stepping down from her position at the end of July 2024. More information about...
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Transition in General Secretary role in 2025
At Annual Sessions this year, the clerk shared the news that General Secretary Christie Duncan-Tessmer will be leaving her position in July 2025. A search committee is forming, a plan is in place, and...
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New Schedule for Councils Meeting Jointly
Our current governance structure was set up with a goal of simplifying our governance and administration. Some adjustments have been made, such as adding a Clerks Group which encourages the clerks of...
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